On election day in Wisconsin the political winds will be blowing from the south at 5 to 15 mph.

The forecast calls for a wintry mix of rain and snow in the south with an inch or more of snow in northern Wisconsin, leading to perhaps the chilliest election day in the Milwaukee area in more than three decades.

If surveys and recent historical data of presidential election turnouts are correct, the crummy weather may make Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates smile.

Surveys of voters show weather is often a factor in their decision to head to the polls. Republicans apparently are more hearty and willing to vote no matter the weather, while Democrats apparently are a bit wimpy when it comes to rain, cold and snow.

A poll by the Weather Channel in August indicated that 35% of undecided voters across the nation said bad weather would affect their ability to vote while 27% of registered Democrats and 20% of registered Republicans felt that way.

"If I was the Obama campaign I would be leasing every taxi tomorrow," said Mordecai Lee, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor of governmental affairs who served in the state Assembly and Senate as a Democrat.

Here’s a thought. It is hard enough for Obama to get a stadium or arena filled nowdays - even when his audience is PAID in some form or another.

NOW - today..in the rain...how many of these fine upstanding supporters are going to hitch up their pants and get out in the weather to vote for him when there isn’t an immediate government check put in their hands - today.

I would crawl through glass, walk on coals and even swim through slop to vote today! All I am facing is a little frost on the windows... but it's first time this year really, so hopefully the blind voters are curling up in their blankets thinking all is ok. Let's take this country back!

Michigan now has some of the toughest voting laws in the country today and I think its why Michigan has moved so far to the right in just a few years. We even had a citizenship checkbox on our ballot application during the primaries but the democrats got a late injunction to have it removed a few weeks back.

I just think that voting should be strictly for the ambitious and slackers should be encouraged to go home and take a nap.

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posted on 11/06/2012 4:36:54 AM PST
by cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)

I'm not even sure that my state (Illinois) has "early voting" that's how little it matters to me. I'm temporarily on crutches and just getting around, like in and out of a car, is a pain in the rear for me but I will manage to go vote today.

I'm not even sure that my state (Illinois) has "early voting" that's how little it matters to me. I'm temporarily on crutches and just getting around, like in and out of a car, is a pain in the rear for me but I will manage to go vote today.

Thank you for holding firm for voter integrity. (although, I do think people like yourself and the elderly should get bumped to the front of the line)

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posted on 11/06/2012 5:08:24 AM PST
by cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)

I would crawl through glass, walk on coals and even swim through slop to vote today.....

If we were told a year ago that today we would be all hyped up for Romney, who would have believed it. I was extremely hard on him. The pick of Ryan and Mitt’s obvious love of Country has earned my vote. Let that squatter in the White House know its O(ver).

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